The director creates the stage action and unifies all

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Unformatted text preview: rnold 136) The Director
“The theatre practitioner who has primary
responsibility for the interpretation of a play. The
director creates the stage action and unifies all the
elements of the production” (Arnold 492).
Exact role and methods used depends on the
director A Spectrum of Creative
Control
The Collaborator<--------------------------------------------->The Auteur
The Collaborator
Often guiding the creation of “devised work”
“devised work”: creation of original material by
an ensemble usually comprised of performers
Examples: Elizabeth LeCompte (p.145 in CS),
Anne Bogart A Spectrum, cont’d. The Auteur
Controls everything down to each minute detail
May even take over design work Approaching a New
Production
1) A World Premier
Director usually works with the playwright
Script still in development
Occasionally the playwright will double as director Approaching a New
2) Using a previously performed and/or published
Production
text
Examples: Any play that is not brand new
(Shakespeare, Greek tragedies, Tennessee Williams,
Arthur Miller, etc.)
The majority of productions
3) A Devised Work
May create a script that can be used in future
productions
The Laramie Project Metaphor and the Designers
“an analogy, or comparison, a symbolic way of
expressing the action of the play” (Arnold 149)
a very specific image
“a way of expressing the most compelling ideas
of the play in a concentrated form that will
become a guide for the work of all the theatre
artist...
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